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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-11
RICHARD JEFFERIESS SPECULATIONS.
Ernrn The Pail Mol Gnzette.


The late Richard Jeferies hos been spoken OF chiefly
as poetical prose writer and dcneator OF tho open
page of nature: but there another side TO his
character another facet of his cut and polished mind
lie delighted In metaphysics. He not brilliant
taker in ordinary society Thoughts and IDEAS dccked
with the rich imagery suggested by the fair face Of
nature, when the and opportunity fitting
flowed easily enough from his pens point but these
did not rise to his lips In the course OF conventional
conversation II had to be out In the open fields,
In the shadow OF great forest, Oh the breezy up
lands or on the salt vaporzed brnl OF the sea, or
perhaps amidst the hum and rattle Of crowded
thorol gare where Isolation might be Intensely felt.
that his mental powers experienced the greatest free
dom and the highest exaltatlon. In listening TO a
recital of of his peculiar views-though startling
and novel, yet devoid of sublimity-One involun
tariiy found awakened interest II was ono OF bis
unknown three ideasfhc existence Of the soul, amor.
taiity and deitythst the mind had for thousands OF
years worked round and round inside tho circle OF
these ideas. and had not troubled TO seek further
whereas there might be fourth ldea-a soul entity
and even a fifth and sixth yet unrecognized. He
used TO that no other and higher conditions
OF existence, something more wonderful than fmmof-
tality-n short. that ilmitabe cosmos of thought
might possibly present itself. since the mind OF man
was infinite. favorite argument OF HIS that We
are apt 20 acknowledge nothing beyond causc and
nstivef We might find, for instance that origin Is
not always duo TO what is called II be-
the material uniycrse ministered TO bis souls
craving that, he loved It,, The lmmensty and I'M
acknowledges of the appeared TO him 10 DO
nearly commSrsrate with the l9rgcpfss of his soul 3
aspirat;ons While tho color OF tho sea, Its varia
bfilty, and Tho explanation Impartial by.its breath
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and in much Of it the Western people who perse-
cuted the Saints must appear, to the cooier
Judgment Of this generation, to have been In 1no
wrong. 1t is to be remembered that the doctrihe
of poIycamy had not then been preached, and
there is good ground ftr believing that Joseph
Smith never held 1t or taught it, though Brigham
Young made strong efforts to prove the contrary
for the sake of his own power Mr.. 1ouIgeeS
story has not much plot, but there are severai
interesting characters and first among these Is
the Yankee pedler chicftain, Dewstowe. Anner
jackson, the long missing Jack Button rechr's-
tened, is o strong and original conception, anu
makes lasting impression on the reader. IL Is
by such characters that great religious
are led and rendered successful and from suoh
characters that fanatics and martyrs are mouioeu.
In picturesqueness and brilliancy ana variety u
color, this story excels the authors former movers
and probably it will prove not the less acceptaoie
to the general reader for not pointing moral
or serving as campaign ammunition In any
political cause
In his narrative Of the Great Bank Robbery
that of the Manhattan Bank, namely-Mr. Julian
Hawthorne has pursued the same plan as In the
"Tragic Mystery He has, that is to say, sought
to beiphten the interest and give picturesqueness
TO the story by exing it Outwth fictitious episodes
much as Chinese with short hair exc ou'
their cues with braided silk. Mr.. Hawthorne
introduces a mysterious woman into the story; a
Gsboriau kind of woman, who poses before the
world rs O leader Of Society and in the dead
deep and middle of the night pays heavily veiied
visits to O wicked old diamond dealer who has
the most intimate relations with all the criminals
Of New-York 1t must be said that this episode
of the diamond dealer and Mrs. Nelson recalls
one of Eugene Sues novels, in which Wicked
beautiful woman plays with and torments an
elderly lover in very much the same fashion,
though naturally in a much more Gallo way.
As to the method in which Inspector Byrnes Is
represented as compromising felony In order TO
spare this lovely sinner, after ascertaning to his
satisfaction that she is OF the gang OF thieves
who "cracled' the Manha ttan Bank, we SHOULD
think the Inspector could hardly feel complmented
by it, the more particularly since nobody is sup
posed TO know where fact ends and fiction begins
In these JOINT productions Of detective and novel,
ist The episode of Mr.. Smith, the eccentric
collector who so perplexes the police by his
apparent connection with the bank robbery, Is
more amusing than probable, and yet 1T is just
one of those incidents which may be quite true,
for there are no bounds to human eccentricty,
and history records plenty of facts" every bit
as odd as that of the rich man who yearned to
possess some object associated directly with
every important crime perpetratcd.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-11

of Amphion, which arc often expressed With tslinr
rhetoric II not with pure poetical fcrvor. Tia
parsonage who occupies the largest place in the
rocm next to Amphion, IL the familiar spirit %
once his tempter and rebuker, "Demogorgon, In
semblance Of huge malformed statue" This
appearance which represents, in its hideous trunk
and twisted, ponderous limbs, long centuries Of
failure and falsehood in art pours pages Of moral
exhortation from it's monstrous mouth; but We
never call up it's image, epitome OF all bad scup.
turc, pounding across the stage on its handy
marble legs, without thinking how ridiculous IL
must have looked. 1t is dangerous to be poet
without a sense of humor. Is Miss Youngs
poetp We fear that she cannot claim that titl.s
The ingenuity Of her design the occasional vivdc-
ty of her fancy, the warmth of her feeling, and
general dignity Of her purpose, are not accom-
panied by the divine fire which fuses all these
elements into poetry. The spirit is to he
betrayed by the diction, and Miss Youngs's Lam
guage is almost invariably that sort OF dressed
up prose which is used for the decoration Of
commonplace thought. In the shorter pieces tho
prosaic dulness of the language is even more
conspicuous than in the long lyric drama, where
the stilted manner Of blank verse partly blinds
us to the poverty with which it is clothed.
Neither has our author any gift Of musical ex-
preston. Some of her short pieces are painfully
labored many of her blank lines are merely
chopped of in lengths; she pcrpctrates verses
which no ingenuity can scan, and takes Liberties
with accents and quantities at which we should
think that even her own hair would rise on end.
She has not made up her mind on which syllable
to accent Amphion, Antnous, Aphrodite, Euphodior
or Coionos, and she varies the pronunciation at
will according to the needs of the metre. Amphion
himself in the course of eighteen lines of sollo-
guy, accents his own name twice on the
first syllable and twice on the second
There some other ecccntricitcs which we
must attribute to sheer ignorance such maxi
ing "hyperbole" word of three syllables and
accenting "retribudvely" Oh the "bu,n "tenta-
tive" "blasphemousn on the penultimate
adolcsceDt' on the ante penultimate, and "apothe
Osized' on the second "O", which involves a
false quantity not very creditable to writer
who seems proud Of her familiarity with tic
things Of Greece Many Of the rhymes are false,
some of them so grossly false, like love" with
of" and enough" went" with "unsuppli-
can't "heifern with "ever,n and "silento with
violent" that Miss YOungs may fairly be sup
posed to Lave defective ear. But probably tic
chief cause of such blemishes is lack oil artistic
conscicntiousn"ss. Tho lady Is not beginner
this appears ~ be her fourth volume of poetry;
hut she has not yet learned the meaning Of w.ric
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-11
WATTS LAMENT FOR ANNE BoLEYN.

We hunted all that bright May day;
The red deer through the Forest new
And many bolt pursued its way;
But not q string that day Drew
For In nv heart this weary chime
or worIs rang on In ceaseless uinc, m
..Had been free and thou been trueg
NV thoughts turned back, for all before
Was sickening. and the ready ciew
OF memory seized, rctraced once moro
DAYS bright and sweet hopes faise anu low
How many days moro bright, more sweet
How many hopes more just, moro meet,
..Had been free and thou been trueT
DAYS when by all our telltale court
NV love was bruited, and thy hue
Deepened shade while in bold sport
The stolen token forth dre",
Flashing the tablet aud the chalh
Before half-angry eyes. - Nnlhl 800,
"uad been free and thou been true!"
Pack IN that gay and CHASTITY hunt!
IN deeper shade the king Withdrew
And rested there, as was his wont.
Surrounded by the couruer crew.
Each other heart leaped 10 the wine;
One heavy thought lay still on minc,
"Had been free and thou been true!
The king sat still. the meal was DONE
And silent every mocker grew;
1t came. tho sign. that sAulderinR gum
Uprose the King full In my Wow;
"iis done. Up. follow va the sport
Imurinured, while nv breath grew shorI
Had been free and thou Deen Uue'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-11
OLD SOyGS.

Give Beauty oil her right
She's not TO one form iiod;
Each shape yields fair delight
Where her PROJECTIONS bide;
Helen, grant. might pleasing be-
Aud Ros' .nond was as sweet as she
Some the qulck eye commends,
Some swelling lips and red
Pale looks have many friends
Through sacred sweetness bred
Meadows have flowers that pleasures move.
Though roses the flowers oil love-
Free beauty IA not hound
To one uuinOved CLINE;
She visits ground
And fayors every time.
let the old loves with mine compares
NY sovereign Is as sweet and fair
Lady when behold the roses sprouting.
Which clad In danask mantles deck the arbours,
nd then behold your lips where sweet love haibours,
NV ewes present with double doubting:
For Waving both alike. hardly my mind supposes
Whistler tho be your lips or your lips the roses
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-11
PEZOy. THE LION TIMER.
Parts letter in The London Telegraph.


man whose name is almost a household word
Is about to make bis bow and exit far as his re-
Pelon the ilon-tamer, intends henceforth to "Iant
his cabbages." lie has made bis fortune, and secs
his ease aud retiro into private life So Bklei his
confrero and rival will have tho field all to himself:
yet Bldel In his line has been more knocked about
fearful and CHASTITY death BY the skin Of his teeth.
pezon, whose menaserie has long been the admiration
s,IarIng is rather below the middle height and him
but muscular His power Is In his eye. Its Is hos
the ssd s,sa .n gSse Of tho o traditional tanner %os
restless rowing eye. rolling, not "ln fine frolDy
least in ceaseess observation Of every turn move
"o duty" the confirmed habit asserts ITSELF but Iezon
In the world In tho cage is the most concllafory
way, and by no means negiecfs his get-up In ths
little pamphlet which he brought out years ago he ex
know, and. above ALT not to fear your animals
This Ia the key OF the whole thing" He certainly
@ Ss %hp and Nothing but at s Is the Alpha
and Omega Of ths trimming process. and bis animals
like pczon. What excitement there one fine gay
Company a With ah lion Which big
heels like poodlei Tho inhabitants colnpiainsea
and hint given that Pezon had better enjoy as as
walks alone If ho could not find other society TO nS
taste Pezon was greatly surprised 1T j W.
stangep no remarked nor could no understand WY
on another occasion people objected TO his srol's
about with an elephant by his side. lie spetas yss
his beasts as II they were children and Few svsr
end
OF tonos seldom fall to work their eject pu' ,srs
ammal-the tger-stil checkmates HIM inc . ans
Il 30 be trusted. 81 keep my eyes on .h ,hs,r
SAYS Pezon, sand am ALWAYS clad to get our VI an,
cage" This Ia q candid confession. especisy NTH
so old hand but its frankncss Is In harmon 10
the character OF tho man. Now Pezon Is auvos
enjoy his well learned rest but his menasc1e sfect
tinuo to flourish. He, like Bdci, belongs 10 loeu
beloved Of tho public. and destined, for az
to the contrary, 70 perpetuate Its
many generations Can all dynasties ~ ID ss y
-f1+.- III s1sr y
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-11
THE Boar rHAr MEYER WENT TO SEA.

THE BOAT Thai Ne I'm bShA ~ "~~'
IL lies forsaken on the sand.
Forgotten on the lonely beach,
A thing OF neither sea nor land.
B.yond the waves incessant reach
The Tide may fall. tho lido may rise.
The wind may whistle joyfully'
II has no fibre that replies
Tho boat that never went 10 sea-
All! happier were tho derelct
That losses with tho urelcss waves,
Where currents OF the sea conflict
Above tho calm OF deep sea csvos:
1t had It's part OF storm ana SHINE,
IL bore it, colors valiantly,
Its keel has cleft the bitter Drino
Its sails were sci, IL went 10 sea
And happier even were the wreck
when nasts are snapped ana SAILS are torn'
And waters meet upon the deck.
Than this poor boat, untried, loriorn,
That never driven by the wind
And blind with foam, ran desperately
With rocks before and storms behlni-
This boat that never went to sea-
The wild convolvulus sows Its seeds
And blooms above tho sun warped planks
That never met the water weeds
And passed between their parted ranks
The rudder. that remembers not
A hand to guide IL steady
Through warning waves, must waste with rot
The boat will never go to sea. . -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-11
SrRERENAR COMEDY.

Conductor (gruay doubtful passsnxsrHave got your
1--WE centsi
Passenger (blandly)-RealIy. old chappie. cantsay
Conductor-well you ought TO know
Passenger with perfect composureNo my dear fellow.
Won 10 anyboiy ought 10 know. gave you hafdime
yon nasssd through a few minutes ago. but whether II
minxIes It's iinzls other coins In meoons
or seeney In the stocking OF Afri
there for whom you Just changed quar-
ter. 10 dllicult fof me TO decide
Conducior-Funny, amt yerf
Passeneer-Not Loo funny.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-11
From "ALMA Matters MIRROR"
TO A BrBLoMANIAc.

Because your books are richly bound.
You feel scholar through and throughf
Then one Cremona, smooth and sound
Might make fiddler OF you, 700. <,.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-11
The BARD.

see him come from far.
And, sick with hOpelessness,
Invoke some kindly star
see him come no less.
Ia there no hid recess
Where hunted men may liei
Ye gods, IL Is too aard!
feel mis- glitterlng eye.
Defend US from the Bard.
-(AUsTry DoBsoS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-11

Samuel p Warren, organist of Grace Church, gave
an organ recital at the Congregational Church at
Great harrington on August 20.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-11

Alexander Lambert has purchased Louis Alexander's
interest in the New-York college of Music and
assumed tho dictatorship I'm the latter's stead. He
has appointed Frau Anna Lankow of the vocal
teachers and hopes 10 reorganize the institution,
greatly Increase its efficiency and elevate its standard
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-11

Juiiette Gordon has bson engaged for the Boston
Ideal Opera Company OF which Messrs Karl Macdonald
aud Barnabee are the proprietors
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-11

Conreds "Gypsy Baron" company will begin its Sec
ond the 10th instant Scranton. Penn. and
proceed thence West as far as San Francisco Miss
Laura Bslini remains prima donna Of the company
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-11

Miss Emily winant and Mr.. Francis Fischer Powers
have for the past months been meeting with most
nattering reception in London musical circles. Mr..
Powers Is In demand and his singing London
creates the Same 1attering com ment az at home.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-11

prone to indulge humort0o heavily freighsed with
thought to be always lght-footed. 1t may perhaps
be susr ected that Of these apparent slips are
Intentional THIS however, does not appear to be
the fact. As a rule Mr.. Mered<t loses no oppor-
tunty of turning the examples OF his characters to
edi6caton He affects the role of tho Greek Chorus
even too constantly for some of his readers and 10
his desire to get at the springs Of action he apt to
grow dscursive to tho weakening of the general
interest The cases mentioned, however, pass
swithout tuck of drum" They do not strike the
author as remarkable and thence we may infer, II
we choose that they illustrate some popularity In
his own mind They really have th,ir origin, as
we believe in that defect of sympathy above spoken
of-one which causes break Of DON tact at critical
moments, and throws the writer pack upon wholly
intellectual explanations of processes which at
least hsif-intutionai and the consequence of q
common humanity. A curious sds-light Is thrown
upou this view by the conception of the elder Rich
mono. an without conscience brilliant. digni-
fed sef-possessed. yet though aenHtive absolutely
without the sense of shame In short. from any but
n purely Ia Intellectual point impossible parsonage.
/ Noneiof Mr. Meredith's books exhibits bis powers
more slgnally than The Egoist" 1t Is NOT story
10 attract the majority but 1t is high comedy OF the
kubtlest, lost refined character. The central hg
lnre, Sir W,lloughby Pstserne. Is type. but indi
.Sidualixed. strongly. Nowners has the cultivated
6elfshness, unconscious arrogance. absorbing self
concsis of certain class of wealthy and we'll born
Englishmeh been 90 mercilcssly set FORTH No
where has % strict. pitless justice been dons
TO them Tho whole book is model of skilful
analysis aud restrained yet piercing satire. The
noustrosity Of the eRoism exposed Is lighted up b.
20 steady o stream Of dscopnscted fasheG th
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-11

Mr. Touree has changed his venue, as the
lawyers phrase Il. His new story is OF an Old
settlement on Lake Chautauqua, OF the early post
colonial times, and of the beginnings Of Mormon
ism. The mixture seems odd when so terscly
described, but the ingredients have been wei
triturated and the general result is agreeable.
Buttons Inn" is an cid hostelry first built on
the shores Of the lake by French trapper and
voyageur named Boutonne. The name naturally
got corrupted into Button, and the inn, after
nourshing through two generations, was shunted
of the prevailing lines Of travel between the
East and the West, and fell into partial decay.
The story is OF the fortunes OF the family that
owned IL, and OF the son OF former guest who
had died mysteriously and under circumstances
which gave color among the surcrsttious neigh
bors. 90 the rel ort that the inn was haunted.
Mr. Tourgcc has not utilized his opportunity to
fall into line with the advanced novelists who
press the supernatural so freely into service
nowadays lie has chosen TO explain the alleged
haunting i'm n prosaic and matter-oi-fact way.
The most interesting feature in the story is the
account Of the early phases Of Mormonism, es-
pccially the description Of worship In the Mormon
ovcrcC lored there must have been much stronger
spiritual element In the first years OF Latter Day
Saintship than has appeared since: indeed, Mr.
Tourgee's picture OF the invocation of Maroni
seems almost to imply a belief on the author $
part that Joseph Smith was genuine prophet;
certainly real enthusiast, No doubt there Is much
Of interest in the early history Of the Mormons
1t is decidedly the best portion Of their annals,
The sun., 1887-11-17
sHERlFF's sALR.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County Of stevens.
Notice il hereby given, that by vi,tne Of an
execution to me iirc,ea and delivered,
and nov in nv I,sn,ls, issued out
Of the District Conrs, 18th District.
in and for the County Of Stevens and State of
Minnesota, upon Judgment rendered there
in in favor II Samuel Larson and Nils A .
Nison, copnrtners as larson and Nilsson, and
against Michael i;alyin have levied npol
the following described real property OF said
Michael Galvin. to- wit:
The west Ialff K) OF the southeast quarter
S. E. ~ Of section nnnsl,er twelve (ic) in
township cne hundred twenty + nr, li24,
north, Of range numl er forty two. (43l west,
81 the fifth i5sh) principal meridian, in said
caunty and state; alsss fractional lot number
three, (3) in 4 lock number twelve, fi2) in
Morris Addition Il, the vii age II Mrris. and
lot number twenty, (a0) in ilsck number
Twelve I2) in Morris Addition to the village
OF Morris ai,resaisf.
And that shall. on Ss.tnrday the 10:s day
Of Decc'nlsr, A. p: 1857. ut the hour Of 10
o'clock A. H., OF snid day, 1T the law Office of
t5earge 4. Dariirg n flis village or Morris,
III said county aIi.t stata, procs*d to sell all
the right, tile and interest II the above nam
ed Mioilaet Gafvin in and to the above DE-
.scribcd property, to satIsfy said Judgment
and costs, amounting to five hundred six dol.
lars and eighty-Dinc cents, together wi it'll MI
acci uing costs Of sale, snd intsr~st on the
same from the 9th day of December, 1896, at
the rate Of cert. per anuum, at PuDlic
Auction. 10 the Highest bidder for Cash.
GEO. H. MUNRO,
GEO. e. DARLING, Sheriff of stevens Co,
Attorney for Judgment Creditors. MINI.
Datsd, Morris, Mimi. . tober 3end, 1887
The sun., 1887-11-17
BACON cR sHaKEsPEARE7
CONTINUED. ]

The theory Of the s'3aconians' is
that the name Shakespeare was NOM
DE pLUME of Francis Bacon. who had
good reasons for wishing that the
plays should not be published under
his name, and that when it was nee.
essary to put forward some authors
name, none filter or more popular
t1an that of the rising and popular
theater manager could be adopted for
the purpose !; that the name was pur-
posely distinguished by the different
spelling; that the plays were sent in.
probably anonymously, by the author
to the manager (>hakespcare) OF the
BIackfriars Thcater. who adopted
them for the stage. introducing. per-
haps. some Of the low comedy busi-
ness into them, and brought them out;
that Shakespeare was The producer
not the composer Of the plays.
The reasons Bacon and his friends.
who we're in the secret Of tile author
chip, bad for wishing thst during his
life. or Immediately after Ills death.
he should be recognized as the author
were cogent. The stage and drama
were At that time at The lowest Glib.
Players and pIaywrisers. ard poetast-
cares. who ranked among tile class of
ssne ser To- wee;a. = vapaimnfla. soscnrs